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Jamaica 1655 undisciplined gang of soldiers took the island from the Spanish Jamaica was the perfect base for strikes against Spanish shipping and raids on Cuba, Hispaniola and Central America Buccaneers made it a lawless colony inhabited by prostitutes, convicts and drunks Jamaica has a superb agricultural resources with more acreage than Barbados and Leeward Islands Between 1655-1680 many poor white farmers migrated to Jamaica from the Lesser Antilles to set up ranches, indigo walks. Cotton and cocoa plantations Many small planters quit their farmers and joined the buccaneers 20 year struggle b/n the buccaneers and sugar planters until the Glorious Revolution where the planters won Many settlers died of malaria and other diseases Planters where victimized by home authorities creating foolish policies to which many planters quit The island had been taken over by huge plantations manned by armies of slaves but many of the plantations had absentee proprieters